Wednesday, July 18, 2012

3 Percent Salary Increase 'New Normal'

3 Percent Salary Increase 'New Normal'ABC News (blog)How much higher can those fortunate enough to have a job expect their salaries to rise in the next year? The answer is 3 percent, according to a study by the consulting firm, Hay Group. According to the consulting firm's research, executives, middle ...

How are enterprises adjusting to the 'new normal' of mobile?ComputerworldUK (blog)Results from the European biannual sample of IDC's 2012 EMEA Enterprise Mobility CIO Survey, fielded in April/May of this year, illustrate that many are struggling to keep up. In Europe, we telephone survey approximately 420 CIOs, IT managers and ...

Responsible investing is the new normalITInewsBuilding environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into the transaction life cycle or investment process across all asset classes is fast becoming the new normal - so agree 300 of the world's leading asset managers and owners who...ITInews

'RHOA' NeNe Leakes Freaks Out Over Lost TV ChannelsGather Celebs News ChannelThe Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes has been busy filming several shows, including Glee, The New Normal, and The Real Housewives of Atlanta. So, when she has the night off, NeNe just wants to relax in her home. One could imagine that she ...

Rethinking the Meaning of “System Reliability”Energy CollectiveNow, we seem to be emerging into a New Normal, as suggested by recent events in the Mid-Atlantic this summer, or last winter in New England, or [insert recent massive grid outage here]. Now, it seems the outages of my personal recollection are far less ...

'Girls' Season 2: Andrew Rannells On Living With HannahHuffington Post... to TVLine, Patrick Wilson will play Hannah's new love interest Joshua, a forty-something doctor who Hannah develops a crush on. For more on Rannells, who is also starring in NBC's "The New Normal" this fall, head over to Vulture. Loading Slideshow .

Majority of Americans will work remotely while on vacation: surveySmartPlanet.com (blog)Is thus the new normal? Has email become the great tether? Are we so hyper-connected via the Web and mobile devices that work follows us wherever we go? These findings were released by TeamViewer, which commissioned Harris Interactive to conduct ...

Is It 'I Do' or 'I Plan' That Divides Us?New York Times (blog)If there is any obvious takeaway from this and the earlier news that for younger mothers, out-of-wedlock births are the new normal, (leading to elevated risks of falling into poverty for children), it would seem to be this: first comes love, then comes ...

Rex Huppke: Go ahead -- be weird at workThe RepublicWeird isn't quite the new normal, but it's gaining traction. Some companies are starting to see that when you encourage employees to be authentic — to not worry about seeming weird or thinking differently — good things happen. Smart ideas rise up, ...

Storm Victims Line Up For Food CardsOhio News NetworkRhodes does not normally get food assistance, but June marked a new normal for families in Montgomery County. "A lot of people had their electricity off for days," added Rosemary Dannin. Dannin runs the food bank in Dayton and ran an assembly line of ...

Coryell EDC focuses on use of resources to draw businessesKilleen Daily Herald"The new normal throughout the country is 'do you have the skilled workforce?'" said board member Fred Chavez. "It used to be green fields and buildings. ... Then people thought it was (tax) incentives. None of those things are the case now." Coryell ...

Secondary Sources: Housing Bottom?, Wealth Poll, Stimulus CriticismWall Street Journal (blog)5. Five Things to Watch for in Bernanke Testimony. 1. Do the Rich Deserve Their Wealth?123 Comments. 2. Is 8% the New Normal for Unemployment?36 Comments. 3. Number of the Week: Public Workers More Likely to Have Health Benefits34 Comments ...

Beware Shrinking Growth Rate ExpectationsiStockAnalystIndeed, investors are only now coming to terms with what PIMCO termed "the new normal" of balanced sheet restructuring/deleveraging-induced low, unstable secular growth. In other words, if one dispels the myth that the Fed can keep stock prices ...iStockAnalyst

WNY Iraq War Vet Getting Kudos for New BookWGRZ-TV"The old me is coming back, but I've settled in with a new me and new normal," he says. "Those are my buzzwords. I've never been into self-help, but I'm more at peace with the new me by not focusing on what's not there anymore." He calls the path he ...WGRZ-TV

Things That Make You Go Hmmm - Such As QE3 Marking An ...By Tyler DurdenDollar up, stocks down is the new normal - which includes the "all bad news is good news" concept of pushing us closer to QE3. Bernanke announcing "We are not doing ANY QE until there is law in place to resolve long term debt." breaks the ...ZeroHedge

The New Artisan Economy Requires New SkillsBy Ray Fisman, SlateIf Hurst is right, we're now adjusting to a new normal, one in which there are fewer manufacturing jobs to go around and no housing boom to absorb all the unskilled workers who could have found work in a less globalized and computerized ...RealClearPolitics - Homepage

The links between cancer and depression and what to do about it ...By Andrea FairbairnThe new normal. We also stretch and grow in strange but beautiful ways during cancer and cancer treatment. We find ourselves perhaps wiser, stronger, deeper and very brave. We might yearn for old interests and friends but don't find ...Breast Cancer Nirvana

Get ready for the coming permanent food crisis | Liberal ConspiracyBy Adam RamsaySo, surely the time has come to stop thinking of ourselves as lurching from shock crisis to shock crisis, and start seeing that crisis is the new normal: food prices are going to get higher – up to 30% higher this decade than last, according to the ...Liberal Conspiracy

Inside the Law School Scam: Risky decisionsBy DJMLaw schools have rather reluctantly admitted that 2010 and 2011 job outcomes are the “new normal.” That is ... Firms are increasing the number of staff attorneys, career associates, contract attorneys, and other “new normal” positions. No one ...Inside the Law School Scam

Brokers Invest in Their Future at Real Estate CEO Exchange ...By susanneBrokers will discuss how they have changed their business and/or operations model to survive and thrive in real estate's “new normal.” From replacing bricks and mortar with virtual and regional locations to innovative solutions for retaining top ...RISMedia